The fourth of July is John Sterling’s birthday and when Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run, Michael Kay said Sterling’s call for Stanton.

It was funny.

Paul O’Neill loved it.

Sterling turned 80!

He looks good for 80!

So the Yanks are off today and start a series against Toronto tomorrow.

Toronto just played a series against the Mets.

The Mets actually won on Wednesday.

They blew a six-run lead on Tuesday.

Hopefully, the Yankees will repeat what they did the last time they played a series against Toronto.

Win it.

Seems simple enough.

The news of Gleyber Torres going on the DL was a bummer.

How about Kyle Higashioka?

All he can do is hit bombs.

It’s pretty funny.

Clint Frazier caught Masahiro Tanaka on Wednesday in Scranton.

Yes, you read that correctly.

After Tanaka was done, Frazier went out to centerfield.

So MLB fined Brett Gardner for taking too long to get into the batter’s box.

He was not happy.

It was around $3,500 which is a lot of money to a regular Joe but Gardner was still pissed.

He had a good quote about it.

“Somebody else can [throw pickoff throws to first base] 27 times in a game and waste 15 minutes of everybody’s time, and I get fined thousands of dollars taking three seconds too long to get in the box.”

He has a point.

MLB is so worried about the pace of play and it seems unnecessary.

And if you’re so concerned about the pace of play, fine the pitchers that take forever between pitches.

That really slows the game to a snail’s pace.

I remember loathing seeing the Yankees play Josh Beckett because he was so slow.

And Clay Buchholz, I’m pretty sure he also moved at a glacial pace when he pitched.

The pace of play also bothers me because there are so many other things to be worried about.

Like how they handle off the field issues.

I don’t want to get into a long diatribe about this so let’s move on.

Sonny Gray is terrible and I will not watch him pitch anymore.

My blood pressure cannot take it.

It is frustrating to watch him fail so miserably when he starts.

That start against the Red Sox when he had two strikes and two outs on four batters and gave up a grand slam?

I wanted to launch Gray into space.

He’s better than how he’s pitching and I don’t understand why the Yankees aren’t doing something with him.

It’s almost always a guaranteed loss when he’s pitching.

And how can someone be so putrid at home but do okay on the road?

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

He’s pitching on Friday against Toronto because Brian Cashman doesn’t think Gray should miss a start.

I think he should miss a start but the Yankees’ rotation is depleted so I can understand why they’re not skipping him.

But I don’t have to like it.

The Yankees’ schedule from now until September 1 the Yankees will play 43 out of their next 51 games against teams with records below .500.

They need to capitalize this stretch and win as much as possible.

They cannot afford to play down to their opponents.

And when September rolls around, they still have six head-to-head contests with the Red Sox.

The division will come down to that stretch of games as well.

The Yankees need to aim for the division.

This year they won’t be facing the Twins in the Wild Card game.

It could be Seattle and while the Yankees swept Seattle when they last played them, the Wild Card game is a much different story.

Anything can happen.

The Yankees’ bats can go cold.

The Yankees’ starter can leave after an inning because he couldn’t get anyone out.